Michael Tchao, one of the original developers of Apple’s Newton personal digital assistant, has returned to Apple after a 15-year absence as vice president of product marketing, according to Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman. Tchao will report to Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of product mar... |
29 September 2009
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Over the last 20 years or so, astronomers have been continuously looking for the mysterious dark matter, the force that some believe is the engine of the Universe. The vast majority of astrophysicists consider that the stuff is what drives galaxies into clusters and what keeps them in place, providing a scaffolding o... |
6 May 2009
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Ever since Isaac Newton first published his general universal law of gravitation, in 1687, the race to find the explanation of this mysterious force has been on. Countless generations of physicists have tried to answer a simple question, namely how is gravity transmitted with so much accuracy and almost instantly ove... |
16 March 2009
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According to recent investigations, Iraqi scientist al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham is the father of optics and the scientific method, having experimented with both of them around the year 1,020, which is more than 700 years ahead of Newton's time. The reason why this is unknown to Western teachers and professors is th... |
5 January 2009
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A thorough look back through scientific history indicates that the major breakthroughs were the result of the genius and hard work of single gifted individuals rather than to the collective effort of savants working under institutional umbrellas. Einstein, Newton, da Vinci or Copernicus stand out as vivid examples to... |
10 December 2008
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Newton's third law of motion postulates that any force acting upon a body will produce an opposing force of the same strength acting against the first one. This seems not to be entirely true, as quantum mechanics presents an interesting phenomenon called the Aharonov-Bohm effect.Also known as the Ehrenberg-Siday... |
5 December 2007
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